Legit HIP training?

ezdude40

Really glad I decided to take a look before I leaped! just talked to a guy from http://www.beahomeinspector.co.uk/ ( Home Inspector Training) and I was going to drive 60 miles for an interview Tuesday 6 May, I questioned him about the course fee and he said we would discuss it at the interview, My Scam seances were alerted and thought I'd do a bit of checking THANKS to all the posters you saved me a trip round the M25 and the embarrassment of sitting through a sales pitch!

whatsgoingon

:mad: Dont do it save your petrol money and dont buy that new shirt and tie. I drove over 100 miles to HIT in Tolworth, london only to be told that it cost £8800 unless u sign up with their sister company for 2 years(hiphiphooray) then the cost would come down to £6800 (thanks). apprently the gov need 6to8000 home inspectors,so that got me thinking there are 48 working weeks in the year and there are 12 students passing each week at each training centre which there are four of =2304 per year i have found a further 7 companys doing the same thing by my rough math if theese guys have the same output there would be 16,128 home inspectors not to mention the 2800 already out there so within a year thats 18,128 home inspectors:rotfl: wait this is going somewhere, so if this pace carrys on for lets say 4 years thats 67,312 home inspectors.Now HIT are taking home 14 mil a year so they will carry knocking out home inspectors i would, 14 mil wouldnt you .This is a proffesional company so you wouldnt be lied to,well this guy told me that there were only 856 home inspetors (lie 2800)and in the next breath they have been doing this for over a year so going back to the math that means that they should have trained 2304 home inspectors there is something very wrong there?So is it a high rate of fails or is this guy on commision either way its sound like a scam.I was also told that not many people pass the interveiw or aptitude test so i have asked my friend dave not the sharpest pencil in the case to go on up his spelling is worse than mine i will keep you posted.14 mill no wonder its hiphiphooray but of course i could already be a home inspector and just trying to keep all the work for me .Just dont do it £6800 could be spent on something more rewarding than this scam oh yer a have 80 empty cans of paint £19.99 each plus post and packaging

redsey

If you are seriously considering this career i would suggest reading this article. Shoud i train as a domestic energy assessor DEA? There are alot of comments from those in the industry and people who are considering it.

RSspike

It seems BEanENERGYassessor.co.uk is still scamming the public by advertising in local papers............
Energy Assesor
Date Posted: Wednesday, 10 Dec
Become a multi skilled Energy Assesor.
New 'green' laws now require all homes and commercial properties being rented, sold or built to have an Energy Assessment - 2.5million estimated in the next 12 months alone regardless of recession, credit crunch or housing market downturn.

Applicants are required to train as Assessors now at out nwtionwide centres approved by the Government-appointed Awarding Body for the built environment. No previos experience necessary, training is subsidised and usually taken around current job and commitments. On qualifying you can be avaliable for potential flexible work through our Energy Assesor Panel, start your own assessor business or work for other Assessment Providers.

Fees are £60 to £80 for domestic and £300 to £1,200 for commercial properties - up to 15 Domestic or 4 Commercial Assessments are estimated to be carried out in a week, subject to size of properties and supply.

Further income-earning opportunities are being researched for Assessors to further qualify and carry out Flood and Fire Risk Assessments, Insulation Surveys, Energy Audits, Property Valuations, Home Inspections and Public Buildings Assessments.

To find out more about starting a career in this new, fast-expanding, environmentally important 'green' industry ring for an interview - 0121 632 3300.

Recruiter: Michael K Howard

fingers321

Hi There, I was reading the threads re HIP training course. Unfortunatley I have signed the agreements with the the training company and arranged a "student loan" through them for £6700.00. (through Barclays)
I am gutted to know that the training is not all that they make it out to be and would like to get out of the debt. I have not started the training at all.
any suggestions please? Many Thanks

Evee2000

Unfortunately, you are not alone. Many hundreds have signed up for these fantastic new energy assessor and Home Inspector positions (which there is zero requirement for). There are currently no plans to introduce the Home Condition Report (the only thing a Home Inspector can produce). They are a voluntary report - and no one is ordering them. The unscrupulous companies that have been mentioned already on this thread are indeed duping desperate individuals with the suggestion that the government are about to introduce the HCR once again. This is not going to happen and they are paying thousands for a career which does not exist. Don't take my word for it - go onto any job search site and do a search for home inspector. Surely, if there was any kind of demand, they would be crying out for inspectors on these sites?

Over 7,000 energy assessors are now qualified to undertake energy assessments. 3,000 were needed from the outset to service the 2.5million homes put up for sale each year. Guess what affect that has on the market? Fees are driven down to ridiculous levels, which are not sustainable but are being undertaken just to get some 'experience'.

Please - do your due diligence before getting caught up in the speil from these sheisters.

HITripoff

fingers321 wrote: »

I am gutted to know that the training is not all that they make it out to be and would like to get out of the debt. I have not started the training at all.
any suggestions please? Many Thanks

After two years I finally qualified as a Home Inspector with HIT at Tolworth. All I can say is BLOODY NIGHMARE. Started off alright with the academic stuff although way beyond what I had expected with all this National Occupations Standards stuff. Came to the practical stuff and it was ONE WEEK to learn how to inspect a property AND get your head round the software and write a report. On the Thursday of that week we had the ‘assessed inspection’. What a farce. Twelve people wandering round a three bed semi for three hours like chickens with their heads cut off, and this was our practical test which formed part of our portfolio after only some SIX HOURS on site training.
My background is in building which is the only reason I was able to pass the course. You have not got a hope in hell if you have no or very little experience of the building trade. So many of my colleagues gave up. Good honest people who were fleeced into this and could ill afford to risk this much money. I feel really sorry for them and tried my best to help them, but you have to produce a portfolio of ten inspections which runs to some 750 pages. You submit it and they fail it on things that you should have been taught. You submit again and it fails on other things, and things that were ok before, as they make the rules as they go along. On the forth attempt it got passed.

I passed in September and was going to get accredited just as a DEA as there is no work for Home Inspectors, but I had a bad motorcycle accident just before I found out that I’d passed. Hip Hip Hooray phoned me and sent me my induction pack. I told them my condition and I have had NO CONTACT from them since. Friends who are out there working and getting two EPCs a day to do IF THEY ARE LUCKY, and ones from HHH are as rare as a blue moon. So they earn 60 x 2 =120 per day, less travelling, less parking, less the upload fee!

We though that with the rental sector coming on line that we would be quids in but an EPC for rental properties is valid for TEN YEARS so after a couple of years there will be very little work to be had there.

My advise to you fingers321 is to fail the aptitude test, if that is possible, and get your money back. Or maybe tell them you have a criminal record as a crim can’t get licensed to practice.

david29dpo

I do HIPs (should say did!) for local agents and solicitors. I am inundated with EPC inspectors offering there services for next to nothing. Need i say more?

flutter_2

This scamming company are now operating under a new name of 'Property Professionals' appear to be the same set of office bases, nearly sucked my dad in, luckily he phoned me :0)

Still spouting exactly the same lies... Just wanted to add this as when I searched their new company name on MSE forums nothing came up, and with google you need to add the word 'scam' to get anything worrying. This is because they have cleverly chosen words which result in loads of unrelated stuff coming up --> my parents didn't find anything suspect!

Don't fall for it,

flutter